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Month: October 2016

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Demolition Exercise to commence soon โ€ฆSays Minister of Lands

October 14, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Mohamed Alieu Bah CULLED FROM THE COCORIOKO FACEBOOK FORUM : The Minister of Lands Country Planning and the Environment, Madam Diana Konomanyie has said in Freetown that demolition Exercise […]

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Football going to the dogs in Sierra Leone

October 14, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU : It is a shame that the country where association football was first played in West Africa should be undergoing a very steep and serious decline in […]

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Sierra Leone to celebrate corporate excellence

October 13, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Leading playersย from across corporate Sierra Leone will compete for Sierra Leoneโ€™s most prestigious corporate awards and leadership honours at the first annualย Sierra Leone Business Awardsย (SLBSA) 2016 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. […]

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Ambassador Adikalie Foday Sumah excels at UN Decolonization Committee Session

October 12, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone now has anotherย  very strong and authoritative voice at the United Nations. He isย  H.E. Mr. Adikalie Foday Sumah, the new Permanent Representative and Ambassador, who took office […]

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President Koroma Urges Pilgrims to Serve as Role Models

October 12, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By State House Communication Unit President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has today (12 October, 2016) urged this yearโ€™s pilgrims returning from the Hajj in Saudi Arabia to serve as role […]

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Information Minister Mohamed Bangura enlightens the public about the austerity measures

October 12, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Mohamed Bangura Explains Austerity Measures Since the government of Sierra Leone announced measures to tackle the economic slowdown, the Minister of Information and Communications, Mohamed Bangura has had no respite. […]

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Sierra Leone Government says it is not selling all the government quarters

October 12, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE PRESS RELEASE GOVERNMENT NOTES WITH CONCERN THE ERRONEOUS INFORMATION CONTAINED IN AN INTERVIEW GIVEN BY MR. FRANCIS MACAULEY, PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER (PRO), MINISTRY OF WORKS, […]

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“Women hold up more than half the sky in Africa” , State Minister Mohamed Sesay tells the UN

October 12, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone’s Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation , Dr Mohamed Gibril Sesay, ย on Tuesday addressed ย the United Nations High Level Event on Strengthening […]

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Foreign Affairs Minister of State Mohamed Gibril Sesay in New York

October 12, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Minister of State (1), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Dr. Mohamed Gibril Sesay , has arrived in New York to attend some meetings at the UN. The minister […]

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VP. FOH RECEIVES THE FINAL BATCH OF HAJJ PILGRIMS

October 12, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  The Hon. Vice President, Ambassador Dr. Victor Bockarie Foh has on Monday 10th October, 2016 welcome the final batch of the 2016 Hajj Pilgrims. The final batch of four […]

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  • ๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Tony Blair Honoured as an Honorary Paramount Chief in Mahera, Sierra Leone
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  • Rest in Peace Comrade Alhaji Minkailu Mansaray
  • How Fatima Bio has been committing fraud and condoning public references to herself as โ€œ Her Excellency โ€œ
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BY KABS KANU- He is not only the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone. He is also an international diplomat par excellence.ย  As Chair of the African Union Committee […]

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Momentum regained : New cabinet, development projects and now tourists storm Sierra Leone

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By KABS KANU The Ebola scourge, which went a long way to throw a spanner into the works of the development drives of the President Ernest Koroma Government is gone […]

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